Bouquet Canyon earth-fill dam under construction, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Bouquet Canyon earth-fill dam under construction, 1933

Date Created

September 1933

Date

1933-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View from the side of the concrete covered upstream face of the Bouquet Canyon Dam. A truck, 2 automobiles and a tractor pulling rollers for scoring the earth or concrete are on top of the dam and workers are on slope of the dam.
Caption for a similar photograph taken on the same occasion: Bouquet Canyon Earth-Fill Dam Rapidly Taking on Permanent Form. Work Progressing. The city's dam in Bouquet Canyon to furnish storage for both water and power and to replace the ill-fated St. Francis Dam is rising steadily each day to the tune of rumbling trucks hauling earth from the pits to the dam site. The view here is from upstream looking at the concrete covered upstream face. The white streaks are streams of water poured on to aid the concrete to cure properly [Los Angeles Times, 6 Sept. 1933].

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: California, Boquet Canyon Dam

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Bouquet Canyon (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Reservoirs--California--Bouquet Canyon
Environment
Government
Bouquet Canyon Reservoir (Calif.)